Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Black is very tall, very thin, with a very big nose, big ears, big mouth and very merry eye. He looks something like Andy Gump, does not mind being told so. More important, he is full of what is known as gumption. It was gumption rather than high finance that qualified him in the President's eyes for his Washington...
...President Roosevelt lopped $460,000,000 from the pension rolls. For weeks the White House has been deluged with complaints that such reductions will work a real hardship upon men with battle injuries. Case after case has been cited of veterans who lost an arm, a leg or an eye and who now must take a 50% cut in their compensation. Last week President Roosevelt stole more critical thunder from the bonuseers by announcing...
Publisher Robert Joseph Cuddihy of the Literary Digest had long been looking around for a new editor when his eye lit upon conservative Mr. Draper. Reputed salary: $40,000 a year, much more than he was paid by the Herald Tribune. The conservative Digest announced "no change of policy...
...spelling was not up to snuff. "Asparagrass . . . tasted diliciously"; to forward swains she could be "very fridged indeed''; of one Hooker Hammersly she states: "He is not the man for My Sister by a long short." She must have read even her favorite authors with half an eye: "I have just read Mrs Gasgells life of Charlotte Brontë, & enjoyed it immensely, almost as much as Jane Ayer." But she was often a shrewd observer. Of General Phil Sheridan she notes: "When anyone makes a commonplace remark or says something that does not interest him, he says...
...reason for this is to be found in the list of members. These individuals are selected, partly by vote of the undergraduates, and partly through appointment by the existing body. It is inevitable that those elected by the students be largely athletes; their names are most in the public eye, and they are, in general, the only ones about whom anything is known. The appointments, however, can be and should be made with a view to the capabilities of the men involved and to their knowledge of College affairs. If the six appointees were individuals with a genuine interest...